$ eix -e netscape-flash
* net-www/netscape-flash
Available versions: [M]7.0.68 [M]9.0.48.0!m 9.0.48.0-r1!m [M]~9.0.60.0_beta082207!m ~9.0.60.0_beta100107!m 9.0.115.0!m {debug}
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/
Description: Adobe Flash Player

I don't understand what the appending flag "!m" means, can anyone tell me?

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On Jan 17, 2008 7:36 PM, Shaochun Wang <scwang@ios.ac.cn> wrote:

$ eix -e netscape-flash
* net-www/netscape-flash
* * Available versions: *[M]7.0.68 [M]9.0.48.0!m 9.0.48.0-r1!m [M]~9.0.60.0_beta082207!m ~9.0.60.0_beta100107!m 9.0.115.0!m {debug}
* * Homepage: * * * * * *
http://www.adobe.com/
* * Description: * * * * Adobe Flash Player

I don't understand what the appending flag "!m" means, can anyone tell me?

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Could it be a bug with eix?* What does emerge -pv netscape-flash return?

On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 7:36 PM, Shaochun Wang <scwang@ios.ac.cn> wrote:
>
> > $ eix -e netscape-flash
> > * net-www/netscape-flash
> > Available versions: [M]7.0.68 [M]9.0.48.0!m 9.0.48.0-r1!m[M]~9.0.60.0_beta082207!m ~9.0.60.0_beta100107!m
> > 9.0.115.0!m {debug}
> > Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/
> > Description: Adobe Flash Player
> >
> > I don't understand what the appending flag "!m" means, can anyone tell me?
> >
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> > Shaochun Wang <scwang@ios.ac.cn>
> >
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> Could it be a bug with eix? What does emerge -pv netscape-flash return?

according to the man page, there is a mirror restriction on it.

I could be wrong, though.

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:50:27PM -0600, forgottenwizard wrote:
> On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote:
> according to the man page, there is a mirror restriction on it.

What is "mirror restriction" ?

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:50:11PM -0600, Kevin wrote:
> Could it be a bug with eix? What does emerge -pv netscape-flash
> return?
>

$ sudo emerge -pv netscape-flash
Password:

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.115.0 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB

It doen't seem this package has been masked!


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That not all the official gentoo download mirrors are used, but only the
one which is in the ebuild under SRC_URI!

Shaochun Wang schrieb:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:50:27PM -0600, forgottenwizard wrote:
>
>> On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote:
>> according to the man page, there is a mirror restriction on it.
>>
>
> What is "mirror restriction" ?
>
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Shaochun Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:50:27PM -0600, forgottenwizard wrote:
>> On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote:
>> according to the man page, there is a mirror restriction on it.
>
> What is "mirror restriction" ?
>
Mirror Restriction means that the package is not available on the Gentoo
Mirrors and will be fetched from some other source. (Adobe Homepage...)

The availability is usually worse as Adobe chooses to change the
location of the files frequently in a random manner...

cheers
Tom
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Thank you for all. Now I think I understand it completely.
The following in the ebuild file sets the mirror restriction:

RESTRICT="strip mirror"


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